Design for Resilience and Regeneration
Students in this course debate our respective futures, map and quantify the challenges, and collaborate to capture climate-specific architectural, urban design, and engineering innovations that address environmental challenges.
Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design at Georgia Institute of Technology, by Miller Hull Partnership and Lord Aeck Sargent with PAE Consulting Engineers.
Given the unprecedented pace of climate change, urbanization, and resource depletion, leadership in design for climate, urban resilience and ecosystem regeneration is essential to our shared future. While resiliency is critically focused on the mitigation and adaptation to climate change, regeneration is driven to heal the errors of the past. After introductory lectures across the range of resiliency challenges, students in this course debate our respective futures, map and quantify the challenges, and collaborate to capture climate-specific architectural, urban design, and engineering innovations that address these environmental challenges. In an online publication, the collaborative effort will illustrate a set of exemplary design solutions for the regeneration of clean air and water resources; a circular economy for protecting the earth and biodiversity; net positive energy and carbon neutrality; the mitigation and adaptation to rising heat; engineering the grid of grids for a resilient all electric future; as well as designing sustainable urbanism for mobility, health and quality of life. The class publication offers a template for building a cumulative CMU online repository of design solutions for resilience and regeneration tied to climates and cultures around the world, tomorrow's Pattern Language.